We arrived at our lovely beachside resort in Hoi An, and were delighted with our room. We mistakenly thought it would be cooler by the coast, um no, its no different here, but lovely to cool off in either the pool or the sea.

Hoi An is famous of its lanterns, cobblers and tailors

The food is beautiful, fresh and very delicious.

This lady was having her eyebrows threaded whilst waiting on her lunch!! Anything goes around here.

Fascinated by the construction methods here, the slowness of the work and how they do it, very very different here, I am guessing no compliance or health and safety paperwork to contend with.

This morning we went to a Cooking class with the Red Bridge Cooking School. We started at a local cafe for a drink and then they took us into the market and explained about the Vietnamese cuisine and how and what they use.

This lady was making rice noodles – we learnt how to do that at the class

The market is divided up into different sections, our guide told us that they come to the market at 5am to get their food and earlier in the day was better than later – there is no refrigeration so the meat etc slowly gets less ‘fresh’ as the day goes on. She said she wouldn’t come to the market later in the day as it was very smelly.

We then boarded a boat and travelled down the river to the school.

We were showed the art of food presentation, this was the chef’s one

And this was my one, lol I guess I have a bit of practicing to do.

We ate all our creations for lunch and are now relaxing by the pool